Mayor Karl Dean gives his State of Metro speech at the official opening of the Music City Center on Monday, May 20, 2013, in Nashville in Tenn.

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Michael Cass
| The Tennessean

With a country music superstar serving as his opening act inside the city's sparkling new downtown showplace, Mayor Karl Dean said Monday that Nashville needs to work hard to make sure it keeps adding to its recent portfolio of honors and accomplishments.

"Is Nashville going to be a one-hit wonder? Or are we a legend in the making?" Dean said during his annual State of Metro address in the soaring Grand Lobby of Music City Center, the $585 million convention hall that opened Sunday.

Moments after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at which he announced that the facility had met its goal of booking 1 ...